Alf Cannan's I Have A Dream

[Banker]

15 hours ago, Blade Runner said:

From IOM Newspapers

I know this guy from many years ago, a very sharp cookie and the following should be read, read again, and fully understood by your government that is running the island into a hole. 

I would add that the proposed Campus off Victoria Rd is a modern day internment camp for Asians, but that's a whole different pile of shit.

 

"What kind of society is the Cannan government proposing?

World organisations and activists rightfully fight for human rights and social inclusion for all.

Our government is funding and supporting the building of campuses and accommodation complexes in Douglas for foreign workers (Westmoreland Road project) designed for the creation of a residents restricted travel zone where personal transport is to be accommodated by 241 bicycle parks.

Very sorry picture of any proper intention to maintain or grow the island as a sustainable democratic inclusive society fair to all.

 

Our government appear to be introducing the very uncomfortable cultural proposition of workforce apartheid; these distasteful concepts cannot be allowed to progress.

 

The island must endeavour to attract the most credible young professionals by making them welcome by inclusion, with an expectancy to set down roots, own a home, own a car, raise families and be a part of society experiencing an island culture and island activities.

Past generations were attracted here to work by lifestyle (not restricted to a bicycle or e-scooter) and made significant contributions to the economy, improved the island as a place to live and invest by raising standards of healthcare, education, and policing, creating a modern society with an enviable feeling of safety.

Before the hard sell, to again attract a new modern workforce, there must be an immediate change in government policy.

There must be visible and immediate investment in infrastructure projects, the provision of family homes, new modern schools and child care facilities, investment in education, expansion of health and care facilities, and investment in policing.

Some of the island’s loss of attractiveness, loss of living standards, and lost economic potential, consequential of governments bad management must now be addressed head on.

If government financing facilities have gone pear-shaped, own up.

If the multi-million loans to the Manx Electricity Authority are not recoverable then they should be written off to cut the price of electricity and help the cost of living.

If the Steam Packet venture with exposure approaching £400 million is recoverable, then the company must be sold to immediately finance infrastructure and re-investment for the benefit of economic advancement.

The New Development Corporation must be immediately reined in, and a statement of its expenditure to date disclosed.

A stop put to the funding of hare-brained concepts derived from inner-city problem areas.

Next to be paraded could be a 13-storey tenement block at the ferry terminal?

This corporation (growing an entourage of directors, consultants, and advisors and fees) must immediately become accountable to the taxpayer (not a committee of three within the Cabinet Office) and only engage in re-development of governments vacant brown field sites, applying appropriate due diligence to planning policy, and achievable affordable deliverability.

This corporation (like the failings of the MEA structure) must be stopped from exposing the taxpayer with multi-millions of undisclosed unnecessary debts in chasing NIMBY ideologies imbedded in a lame “Island Plan”.

A plan which reads like a thesis of aspirations dreamed up by a delusionary student.

This Island Plan has no achievable fiscal structure, or ability to address urgently the island’s most imminent critical needs.

Chief Minister, you fail to engage with opinion, with private enterprise, with consultation data or Inquiry findings, as if you rule a kingdom.

Your politics, your Island Plan, your immigration worker plan, are an economic disaster, only propped up by a ‘Lavrov’ styled press office spinning government failures and everyday occurrences into extravagant success stories courting media headlines, which are no longer believable.

Your politics are simply not conducive with an island economy and do not address issues specific to an island’s population progression.

Dumping the work permit system will only look inviting to those living from crime.

The non-productive Housing Board headed by Minister Thomas needs to be scrapped immediately.

Your mishandling of the Ranson revelations highlights you have no meaningful appetite to address destructive and vindictive bullying cultures in administration government.

The next election, like the last election, will send many ineffective whimpering MHKs and Ministers heading for new employment, but Chief Minister, for the good of the island, you and your political ideologies, must go, and go now.

Henry Kennaugh

Hillberry Green

Douglas

Absolute bollocks posted by an idiot & written by a bitter old man 

[ADELE]

I have never read such nonsense Banker is 100% right in his summing up.  

[Andy Onchan]

I think this speaks the truth:

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Our government appear to be introducing the very uncomfortable cultural proposition of workforce apartheid; 

 

[Non-Believer]

1 hour ago, Andy Onchan said:

I think this speaks the truth:

 

I think there's more to worry about in the the return of local serfdom....

[CallMeCurious]

I was slightly mystified by propposed plans to spend millions on extending schools whilst there is a declining birth rate. Yes I get it's a long term process i.e. a decade from now before that decline progresses to secondary schools but rather than waste millions, why not add in portacabins and seriously look at consilidating schools. Catchment areas are fairly fluid with most parents bussing or driving kids to school anyway.

Or is it a case of "If you will build it, they will come"? ~  Alf "Costner" Cannan

[Blade Runner]

BUMP

[2112]

CM Cannan and the NPM are in full bullshit, waffle and spin mode both yesterday and today. 
 

Yesterdays press release was trumpeting how 650 new jobs have been created by the Cannan Regime. What jobs - lots of civil servant jobs!

Meanwhile the CoC are complaining of IOMG red tape so businesses can’t expand or progress. 
 

Today CM Cannan through his mouthpiece the NPM boasts his economic strategy is proving to be a success. 
 

Im all for economic growth and increasing the population, but at what cost? Public services are terrible, and funding squeezed. 

[Andy Onchan]

South African HNWI migration.... but not to the Isle of Man it seems:

https://businesstech.co.za/news/wealth/697203/millionaire-south-africans-are-emigrating-with-their-wealth-to-these-countries/

[Twitch]

1 hour ago, Andy Onchan said:

South African HNWI migration.... but not to the Isle of Man it seems:

https://businesstech.co.za/news/wealth/697203/millionaire-south-africans-are-emigrating-with-their-wealth-to-these-countries/

I can't believe they aren't flocking here given our unique biosphere status, diverse economy, vibrant nightlife and our reputation as a well-regulated jurisdiction with robust company law and substance requirements.

[TheTeapot]

Plenty of wealthy South Africans here already, they like the safety and relative lack of 'blicks'

[Albert Tatlock]

It just cost someone £10 to ring me on a Sure mobile from a UK mobile (only a 5 min call). Bonkers!

At those rates, who's going to even enquire about working with a business here?

 

[2112]

2 hours ago, Andy Onchan said:

South African HNWI migration.... but not to the Isle of Man it seems:

https://businesstech.co.za/news/wealth/697203/millionaire-south-africans-are-emigrating-with-their-wealth-to-these-countries/

Considering the amount of money spent by IOMG on roadshows to South Africa, and they can’t get a mention on a list is poor. If the island was mentioned, maybe other South Africans HNWIs would be encouraged to come here. 

[Andy Onchan]

3 minutes ago, 2112 said:

Considering the amount of money spent by IOMG on roadshows to South Africa, and they can’t get a mention on a list is poor. If the island was mentioned, maybe other South Africans HNWIs would be encouraged to come here. 

That was my main reason for posting the link. And that begs the question, what measurement does IOMG use to establish the effectiveness, or otherwise, of these jollies?? 

[Twitch]

11 minutes ago, Andy Onchan said:

That was my main reason for posting the link. And that begs the question, what measurement does IOMG use to establish the effectiveness, or otherwise, of these jollies?? 

Number of business cards exchanged; number of drinks receptions attended.

[Roger Mexico]

1 hour ago, TheTeapot said:

Plenty of wealthy South Africans here already, they like the safety and relative lack of 'blicks'

Certainly plenty of South Africans.  By place of birth they were the second highest non-British group in the 2021 Census with 1218 on the Island (as you'd expect Ireland was top with 1630).

How wealthy they are is another matter though.  I get the impression there's a lot of comfortably off retirees (or near it), but not many HNWIs.  Though I'm sceptical of how much even those actually put into the economy.  And if the age profile is higher, they may well end up needing more from the economy (NHS etc) than they put in.  Selling safety doesn't always bring in the big spenders.